The thin line between genius and insanity is less of a border than a union.

"Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish."--Pope John Paul II

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.-Albert Einstein

Alone in the Dark (Tara Reid, Christina Slater)
I drink a pint of whiskey in every movie I see, as a true pirate should, and I stared at the ceiling instead of the screen in Alone in the Dark at some points it seemed more interesting.

Now come on. Some of you are giving movies that were either deliberately bad, deliberately stupid, or were made amateurishly but somehow made it into cult moviedom.
Can we make some rules here?

Anything by Ed Wood doesn't count.
The movies should have been made seriously, or in an attempt to cash in on the original. ie: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes doesn't count because it was made as a joke, but the remake of The Blob does. Endless Love and Pearl Harbour both count.
'No budget' productions don't count.

Note to Taidje Khan: Howard the Duck (actually called Howard!), while stupid, is a really cool movie, and our beloved Australian prime minister who bears the same name also bears a striking resemblance to him.

Anyhow: The Hollywood remakes of Ring, Ring 2, & Ring 0 totally suck. The original Japanese versions were much better.

St John the Blasphemist
Saint of Remakes

Intelligence: What stupid people think they have lots of.Stupidity: What intelligent people wish they had less of.

I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.- Pol Pot

St John the Blasphemist wrote:Now come on. Some of you are giving movies that were either deliberately bad, deliberately stupid, or were made amateurishly but somehow made it into cult moviedom.Can we make some rules here?

Anything by Ed Wood doesn't count.The movies should have been made seriously, or in an attempt to cash in on the original. ie: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes doesn't count because it was made as a joke, but the remake of The Blob does. Endless Love and Pearl Harbour both count.'No budget' productions don't count.

Note to Taidje Khan: Howard the Duck (actually called Howard!), while stupid, is a really cool movie, and our beloved Australian prime minister who bears the same name also bears a striking resemblance to him.

Anyhow: The Hollywood remakes of Ring, Ring 2, & Ring 0 totally suck. The original Japanese versions were much better.

St John the BlasphemistSaint of Remakes

I take on board what you are saying, but I get the impression that Ed Wood was completely ernest in his attempts to make a good horror movie. I don't think he ever realised that his films were so bad...bless him! I also have to point out that you quoted Lair of the White Worm (1988) which I think Ed Wood would (or even Edward Woodward) have been very proud of that film!

If only Ed Wood could have made a film starring Edward Woodward about Wicker Vampires or something!

Totally agree about the pathetic hollywood treatment of The Ring.

The smoke wafted gently in the breeze across the poop deck and all seemed right in the world.

One I would nominate is The Final Cut. If I taught a film class, I would require students to watch this terrible movie, and then discuss all the ways in which it is bad (most of them have to do with the story, but some have to do with production, and the acting was miserable as well).